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Illinois is next on friday. and cape girardeau in the southeast corner of the state also unfortunately facing floods. and it's not a coincidence that you see 1993 on all of the boxes. that's the last time we saw an epic, monumental flood event like this. so it's very unfortunate that we're facing this in the days to come. here's a closer look at the mississippi river in st. louis. the forecast for tomorrow, 43.1. this takes us well above major flood clg is considered 40 feet. and the record level once again in 1993 was 49.6. so we're looking at that. i just want to also point out that it's bee...

Nation. nearly 50 people are dead. fox news meteorologist janice dean is tracking all the storms. janice? >> hi, kimberly. this one is for the record books. we had everything from blizzards to tornadoes. 8 days of tornadoes. the flooding, the ice, the freezing rain and the snow. it's almost done. however, the flooding is going to be with us well into the new year into next week. the mississippi river continues to rise. especially at st. louis where it is expected to crest tomorrow at almost historic levels. this type of flooding is something we typically see in the springtime with the snow mel...

And only three december through february. here we are in december. why so little this time of zbleer well most of the floods happen during the spring when the snow melts. that's when we get the water. this is unusual. but right now we have over 400 river gauges at flood stage. you can see as we were saying this is going to be an on going threat for st. louis. the crest will likely get up to 43.1 on thursday. the record this was the epic floods in 1993. and then as you go down the mississippi river, we're looking at another crest on friday at chester, illinois. and then cape girardeau in the so...

Government worked to push tenman square out of people's minds? good morning, it's wednesday, june 6 pt at this hour, chris mcdaniel has 49.6% of the vote. cochran shows with 48.9%. a third candidate, thomas carey, has less than 2%. that means no within has the majority of the vote needed to avoid that runoff in three weeks. campaign officials said it might take until thursday given absentee and contested ballots. but last night mcdaniel was

Years, 49.6% were white, 50.4% were not. steve centanni is on that, national comes respondent. what accounts for the growing number of minorities. >> an aging population of white baby boomers and rising number of newer immigrants and minorities. it's important to note this tipping point would be reached, but nobody knew when it would happen. a lot is driven by the hispanic immigration and birth rates. hispanics are the largest group, 52 million in 2011, they're growing at about 3.1% since 2010 and they now account for 16.7% of the population, or at least they did in 2011. that is up from 16.3%...